1576 Edition | Book 11 | Page 1624 
MarginaliaAn. 1555. Iuly.day, or xl. dayes, but vnto such tyme as I do openly in þe congregation knowledge my fault: thē the Minister hath power by the worde, to Preach to me or them the remission of our sinnes in the bloud of Iesus Christ, as it is written in the xiij. of the Actes of the Apostles, Mathew xviij. Other confession I know none.
[Back to Top]To this vj. Article, I the sayd Iohn Denley haue aūswered in the fift, &c.
To this seuenth Article I aunswere, that as touchyng the Sacrament of Baptisme, whiche is the Christening of children, it is altered and chaunged: MarginaliaBaptisme abused in the Popes Church.for S. Iohn Baptist vsed nothyng, but the Preachyng of the worde and the water, as it doth appeare, when Christ required to be Baptised of him, and others also whiche came to Iohn to bee Baptised, as it appeareth Math. iij. Mar. i. Luke. iij. and Act. viij. the Chamberlaine sayd: MarginaliaAct. 8.See here is water, what letteth me to be Baptised? it appeareth here that Philippe had preached vnto him: for hee sayd: here is water. We doe not read that he asked for any creame, or oyle, nor for spettle, nor coniured water, nor coniured waxe, nor yet crisome, nor salt: for it semeth that Philippe had preached no such thynges to him: for he would as well haue asked for them, as for water: and the water was not coniured, but euen as it was afore. Also Act. x. MarginaliaActes. 10.Then aunswered Peter: Can any man forbyd water that these should not be Baptised? &c. Act. 16. MarginaliaAct. 16.And Paule and Silas preached vnto him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house: and he tooke them the same houre of the night, and washed their woūds, and so was he Baptised, & all they of his houshold straight way. Where ye see nothyng but preachyng the worde, and the water. The lyke also is to be sayd of the rest of the ceremonies of your Church.
[Back to Top]To the eight article I aunswere shortly, that there be Sacraments no moe, but two, Baptisme and the Sacrament of the body and bloud of Christ, MarginaliaThe Rayne bow as good a Sacrament as some of the Popyshe sacramentes.except ye will make the Raynbow a Sacrament: for there is no Sacramnet but hath a promise annexed vnto it.
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CloseThis article is worded somewhat differently in Rerum, p. 513; this was notdue to Foxe tampering with the text but with his printing different versions of the document in the Rerum and in 1563.
By me Iohn Denley.
CloseThe first day of the moneth of Iuly, the sayd iij. prisoners were brought into the Consistory in Paules Church,
where hee proceeded agaynst them after hys vsuall forme and manner of lawe, reading first their confessions, articles, and aunsweres, and then temptyng them, sometyme with fayre promises, other whiles with threatenynges, which were alwayes hys chiefest Argumentes and reasons to perswade withall: MarginaliaM. Denley, Newman, Pachingham, condemned the 5. day of Iuly.in the end, seyng their vnmoueable constancy, vpon the fift day of Iuly he condemned them as heretickes, and gaue them vnto the Shiriffes of London, as to his common executioners: who kept them vntill they were commaunded by write, to send them to their seuerall places of sufferyng:
CloseEarly in 1555, the martyrs were sent to be executed in places where they had been active in preaching. But Denley and Patingham had no known connection to Uxbridge. They were being sent there rather than being burned in London where the crowds had become dangerously volatile.
CloseA note recounting this anecdote, written in Foxe's hand, is in BL, Lansdowne 109, fo. 52r. Almost certainly the note was jotted down by Foxe as he listened to what an informant related to him.
The sayd Iohn Denley beyng yet still in the flame of the fier, put his handes abroad and sang agayne, yeldyng at the last his spirite into the handes of God through his sonne Iesus Christ
After the Martyrdome of M. Denley at Vxbridge, which was the viij. of August, suffered also not long after, Patrike Pachingham at the same Towne of Vxbridge, about the 28. day of the sayd moneth. MarginaliaThe Martyrdome of Patricke Pachingham at Vxbridge Anno 1555. August. 28.This Pachinghā was charged of Boner (as ye heard in the x. article before) for his behauiour shewed in the Byshoppes Chappell: who at the Masse tyme there stādyng, would not put of his cap: which was taken for an haynous offence. The sayd Pachingham also beyng much laboured by Boner to recant, protested in these wordes to the Byshop that the Church which he beleued was no Catholicke Church, but was the Church of Sathan, and therfore he would neuer turne to it. &c.
[Back to Top]MarginaliaThe Martyrdome of Iohn Newman at Saffron Walden Anno. 1555. August. 31.Furthermore, as touchyng the other, which was Iohn Newman Peuterer, dwellyng at Maydstone in Kent, he was burned this last of August at Saffron Walden in the County of Essex, whose confession is in the first booke of Actes and Monumentes more at large to be sene.
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CloseThere is a note in the Rerum (p. 510) stating that Richard Hook was burned at Chichester in July 1555. Hook was one of a number of Sussex martyrs about whom Foxe never acquired much information.
MarginaliaRichard Hooke Martyred at Chichester.LIkewise Richard Hooke about the same season, and for the same matter gaue his life at Chichester.
CloseThere are brief notes in the Rerum (on p. 513) that William Coker, Richard Colliar, William Hopper, William Stere, Henry Laurence and Richard Wright were burned in Canterbury on 13 August 1555. (Foxe would later be less certain, stating simply that they were burned in late August). Foxe compiled the core account of these martyrs in the 1563 edition, and it was drawn from Canterbury diocesan records which are now lost. In the 1570 edition, Foxe added quite a lot of detail taken from informants. The account of these martyrs was unchanged in subsequent editions.
[Back to Top]Marginalia6. Martyrs in Kent.MEntion was made a litle before in the story of M. Bland, & Nic. Shetterden, pag. 1591. of certaine other Kentish mē, who beyng the same tyme wyth them called forth, & examined by MarginaliaThornton, Harpsfield, Richard Faucet, Rob. Collins, persecutours.Thornton B. of Douer, N. Harpsfield, Ric. Faucet, & Rob. Collins: yet notwithstādyng because the cōdēnation & executiō of thē was differred a litle lōger till the latter end of þe moneth of August, cōming therfore now to the tyme of their sufferyng, we will briefly touch some part of their examinatiōs & aunsweres, as we find thē in the Registers. The names of these were W. Coker, W. Hopper, Hen. Laurence, R. Colliar, R. Wright, W. Stere. What the Articles obiected to M. Blād & thē were, ye heard before, pag. 1585. To the which Articles they answered for them selues seuerally in effect as followeth.
[Back to Top]MarginaliaWilliam Coker condemned.FIrst William Coker sayd, he would aunswere no otherwise then he had already aunswered: and beyng offered to haue lōger respite of. vj. dayes after, he refused to take it, and so vpon the same, sentence of condemnatiō, was read agaynst him, the. xi. of Iuly.
CloseIn the 1570 edition, Foxe took pains to add the dates on which events took place
MarginaliaWilliam Hopper condemned.WIlliam Hopper first seemed to graunt to the fayth and determination of the Catholicke Church: after callyng hym selfe better to mynde, constantly stickyng to the truth, he was condemned the next weeke after, the 16. of Iuly.
CloseNote that this date was incorrect in the 1563 edition and corrected in the second edition.
HEnry Laurence examined the sayd day of Iuly xvj. and partly differred to the second of August, aunsweared to the Articles obiected agaynst him: MarginaliaThe wordes of Henry Laurence.first, denying auricular confession, and that he had not nor would receiue the Sacrament, because (sayth he) the order of the holy Scriptures is chaunged in the order of the Sacrament.MarginaliaEx Registro.
[Back to Top]MarginaliaPutting of his cap at the mention of the Sacrament.Moreouer, the said Laurence was charged for not puttyng of his cap when the Suffragan made mention of the Sacrament & did reuerence to the same, the sayd Laurence aūsweryng in these wordes: what, sayd he, ye shal not neede